Quotes About Machinery

Thus, the theatricality of machinery: Such movement is but a change of scenes. If effective, the machinery will see to it that we remain untouched by the elements, by other travelers, by those whose towns or lives we are traveling through. We can see without being seen, move without being touched.

When it is most effective, machinery will have no effect at all.

And yet Curt's a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that's all.

Twisted pistons!" Clyde called. "I can't get this thingamajig to go back in the whatchamadoodle. Unless it goes in this doohickey…" "Sounds very technical," Kitsune said.

A pioneering work in the study of neurasthenia, American Nervousness builds its case through an elaborate mechanical metaphor: the nervous system is like a machine presently under strain in response to the pressures of the machinery of civilized life.

I pushed my hand into the open slot of the maker and closed my fingers around the sculpted handle of the energy-pistol. The newly minted weapon had the peculiar heft of something crammed with intricate machinery at abnormal densities.

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

The illusion of reality lies not in the machinery itself, but in in the users' willingness to treat the manifestations of their imaginings as if they were real.

If you build a robot, you're welding, machining sculpting, casting, dealing with electronics and hydraulics.

I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft, and I went to sleep to the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of an arc welder at the little tipple machine shop during the hoot-owl shift.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

In the case of living machinery, the 'designer' is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.

Freed hands both rising for the pommel now, so natural, so smooth, it was like Kiriath machinery, as if he were machinery, a cunningly crafted clockwork Kiriath mannequin, built to complement the steel. He felt the accustomed kiss of the grip on his palms, felt the grin on his face turn into a snarl. Cold chime as the scabbard gave up its embrace. And the Ravensfriend came out.

Machinery which is not used is not capital.

To sum up: the more productive capital grows, the more it extends the division of labour and the application of machinery; the more the division of labour and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

But the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.

Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.

The various interests and conditions of life within the ranks of the proletariat are more and more equalised, in proportion as machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour, and nearly everywhere reduces wages to the same low level.

We know that to work well the newfangled forces of society, they only want to be mastered by newfangled men — and such are the working men. They are as much the invention of modern time as machinery itself. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.